[Koha] Diacritics displaying (or not) in Koha

[Jesse Lambertson]

Hello everyone,

What are the factors that determine whether diacritics display in Koha or
not?

Is this based on encoding or something else?

I understand the encoding default for KOHA (during import) is UTF-8.
But it also has a MARC-8 option.

I am working with records created in OCLC Connexion, records which are
coded in MARC-8. Can I assume every aspect of those records will also
display - specifically diacritics for transliterated Arabic.

My first test imports did not display diacritics and I am hoping that if I
re-import that same batch in MARC-8 they will.

If not, what is the common work-around to display them?

Background: We are finally in test-set-up mode for our KOHA installation
(whew) and are trying to work out its kinks relative to our arrangement.

Our installation is as follows:

> Base install of Debian Wheezy 7.8
> Apt-get install of mysql
> Apt-get install of apache 2.2
> Package install of Koha 3.20

Thank you much in advance.

Jesse

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